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Title: The Social Dimensions of Development Effectiveness: The draft World Bank Social Development Thematic


1
The Social Dimensions of Development
EffectivenessThe draft World Bank Social
Development Thematic Strategy
  • Steen Lau Jørgensen
  • Director, Social Development
  • World Bank

2
An example from Mchinji, Malawi
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An example from Mchinji, Malawi
4
What is social development?
Inclusion Putting people at the center of
development Involved an illiterate woman in
Mchinji
5
What is social development?
One illiterate woman
6
Assets and Capabilities for Poverty Reduction
Institutions
Well-being Poverty reduction
Social
Financial
Inclusive Cohesive Accountable
Physical
Human
Natural
7
How does the World Bank do social development?
  • Principles
  • Inclusion. Putting people at the center of
    development Providing equal access to opportunity
  • Cohesion. Strengthening communities so people
    can work together for common objectives and
    overcome divisions
  • Accountability. Developing ways for people to
    exercise voice to authorities, and for
    authorities to respond

8
How does the World Bank do social development?
  • Areas of activity
  • Social Analysis
  • Participation and Civic Engagement
  • Community Driven Development
  • Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction
  • Social Safeguards

9
How does the World Bank do social development?
  • Social analysis
  • E.g., how does opportunities for female migrant
    workers change local norms and culture, how is
    that relevant for development interventions?
  • E.g., what social norms about girls education are
    relevant for achieving universal primary
    education?
  • E.g., what is the likely social impact of land
    reform in Cambodia or Zambia?
  • How is a country evolving on the principles, i.e.
    tracking progress on inclusion, cohesion,
    accountability

10
How does the World Bank do social development?
  • Participation and Civil Engagement
  • In Uganda, support public debates of policy
    changes proposed through dialogue with World Bank
  • In Albania, support legal changes in enabling
    environment for civil society
  • In Peru support publication of the Budget
  • In Philippines work on accountability and NGO
    enabling environment

11
How does the World Bank do social development?
  • Community Driven Development
  • E.g., in Indonesia and Philippines, provide
    resources to communities that take initiatives to
    develop local development plans
  • Such programs are in 60 countries with a volume
    of Bank support between 1 and 2 billion USD
    annually

12
How does the World Bank do social development?
  • Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction
  • E.g., help rebuild infrastructure, economies and
    societies in Afghanistan, Congo, Somalia
  • E.g., carry out conflict analysis (Somalia,
    Nigeria) to study drivers of conflict and
    recommend policy changes

13
How does the World Bank do social development?
  • Social Safeguards
  • E.g., protect interests of indigenous peoples and
    involuntarily resettled persons, making sure they
    benefit in appropriate ways from development
    interventions
  • Traditionally main entry point for SD staff, now
    about 20 of work

14
How does the World Bank do social development?
  • Staffing
  • Recognized as sector group within the Bank since
    1997
  • About 140 staff (out of 10,000 total), many
    (about 60) with anthropology or sociology
    background, but very diverse
  • About half are in country offices

15
Social Development Works
  • Review from World Bank Operations Evaluation
    Department shows that attention to social
    dimensions makes projects work better

16
Strategic Objective Accelerate the trajectory
  • Heading in the right direction
  • Portfolio that includes SD increased (to about
    half)
  • Quality of attention to SD issues in other
    projects improved (85 of good quality up from 75
    four years ago according to QAG)
  • Strategic priorities to go further
  • Strengthen policy dialogue and lending
  • Improve project effectiveness by mainstreaming
    and free-standing portfolio
  • Build on foundation of capacity building,
    advocacy and research

17
Increase Attention to SD in the Bank's Policy
Dialogue and Policy-based Lending
  • Strengthen multi-stakeholder participation in
    development and monitoring of macro strategy
    documents (e.g. Poverty Reduction Strategy
    Papers, Medium Term Expenditure Framework, Bank
    Country Assistance Strategy)
  • Improve the social development content of policy
    analysis, working from positive experiences with
    Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) and
    social capital studies.
  • Improve content of policy-based lending
  • E.g., budget transparency conditionality,
    enabling community groups to manage public funds,
    improving transparency of bidding process

18
Improve the effectiveness of Bank-supported
investment projects
  • A more systematic approach to social development
    and stronger follow-through
  • Improve multi-stakeholder participation to
    include better sustainability and monitoring by
    building into local planning processes
  • Improve social analysis including efficiency
    improvements by relying on sector-wide and
    country-wide work, e.g. country social analysis
    and
  • Improve mainstreaming of SD concerns into
    Bank-financed projects and project components and
    nurture SD portfolio that is currently at about
    8 of Bank lending.

19
Improve capacity building, knowledge sharing,
partnership and research
  • Align research priorities better with operational
    needs by supporting research that
  • explores further the link between the social
    dimensions of development and economic growth,
  • refines indicators for social development, and
  • better evaluates the impacts of social
    development projects.
  • Sustain advocacy based on better aligned research
    and clarify the aspects of social development the
    Bank will address directly.
  • Strengthen capacity building

20
Overview
  • Draft Social Development Thematic Strategy Paper
    presented to CODE December 17
  • OED Review evidence that social development
    improves effectiveness
  • Support for operational principles that answers
    What is social development?
  • Developing a business plan that answers How does
    the World Bank support social development?
  • Holding extensive external consultations

21
Next steps
  • Finalize Bank-wide business strategy third
    quarter 2004
  • Dissemination after final Executive Directors
    endorsement - possibly late 2004 early 2005

22
Key Questions.
  • Do you agree with the principles of inclusion,
    cohesion and accountability?
  • What should the Bank do to promote social
    development?
  • What are good or bad practice examples from the
    Philippines, that we should learn from globally?
  • We need your help/advice

23
I will not wait
  • In a letter from Birmingham jail, Martin Luther
    King Jr.wrote
  • How long are my people supposed to wait? Human
    progresstakes the hard work of dedicated people
    like you and me, working together to advance
    human civilization I will not wait
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